Lesson 1 Section 1-3 Social Scientists TCI

• What do social scientists study?

• How animals hunt for food

• how people live in groups

• how earth was formed

• how plants grow from seeds

• Which of these subjects does a geographer study?

• choices people make about what to buy

• natural and human features of Earth's surface

• governments of cities, states, and nations

• written records from a thousand years ago

• Which of these is a human feature?

• forest

• hill

• house

• river

• A political scientist is a social scientist who asks questions such as

• Who is in charge?

• How are needs met?

• What happened here?

• What is located where?

Which type of social scientist would be most interested in talking to these children?

• geographer

• economist

• political scientist

• historian

Match the social scientist to the questions they may ask.

• Where were these shoes made?

• political scientist

• Why did you choose to buy these shoes?

• geographer

• Who was in charge of buying the shoes?

• economist

• How have shoes changed over time?

• historian

Which are artifacts from history?

• birth certificates

• Apple IPhone 13

• Today's weather map

• Nike Dunks

• What kind of information do economists look for when they study the economy of a community?

• the way people use resources to meet their needs and wants

• where things are located in the community

• how people solve problems in the community

• stories people tell about the community's past

Which of these items is a need?

• toys

• clothes

• new i phone

• bicycles